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...risk of developing dangerous blood clots on long air flights (the so-called coach-class syndrome). For patients who are already at high risk of clots--because they've had them before or have other circulatory problems like large varicose veins--something completely different seemed to do the trick: a shot of the blood thinner heparin one or two hours before flying cut the risk of clotting to nearly zero...
...boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk's robe willing to perform a trick or two. "Shaolin," as American martial artist Brian Gray wryly puts it, "has become kung fu's answer to Colonial Williamsburg...
...trick Rabbo was playing is based on the fact that the word “Semite” refers to descendents of the biblical figure Shem, the son of Noah. Arabs as well as Jews are supposedly descendants of this figure. There is a difference, though, between the etymology and the definition of a word, and this is a distinction that Rabbo pretended not to recognize. He used this verbal slight of hand to avoid addressing the shameful stain of Palestinian anti-Semitism...
...sort of trick play that Murphy’s followers have almost come to expect and one that Murphy said he hadn’t pulled out of his bag of tricks since he coached Cincinnati a decade...
However, four minutes later, Rooth completed the hat trick when she redirected a slap shot past Crimson senior goalie Alison Kuusisto to make the score 7-5. Rooth then picked up her fourth goal of the afternoon into an empty net in the final minute of the game to round out the scoring...